Where Reed’s original was a gritty punk-poetry diatribe, Seger blows it up into a white-man soul anthem. A horn section, backing chorus, and furious guitar solo brings a huge Seger sound that evokes one of his 1970s records. Well, with one difference: He changes Reed’s lyric “you can’t depend on the churches” into a timely “you can’t depend on the president.”

Ever old-school, Seger has not released the track to streaming services or YouTube (god forbid). It’s only been shared with radio stations. But one of them posted a stream, which you can hear below.

The line is not only changed to “you can’t depend on the president” but follows with “–unless there real-estate that you wanna buy”–making it more explicitly about real-estate mogul Trump. Lou Reed’s ‘New York’ album, on which the original version appears, was the first album I ever bought in that high-tech new format called “CD.” Still have it, and still like this song. Nice cover.